To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
TONI MORRISONThere is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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You are your best thing.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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You are your own stories.
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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